A mind filled by the heart sees a world full of beauty and compassion.

Contents

. ignorance . intensity . indignity . iniquity

Intensity

to be of great depth

to strain in stretching out

to form from extreme feeling

COMES TO PASS

When my hands are up

my guard is down

more happiness arose from my heart

than from my mind

so far as what I’ve witness

come to pass.

Having tried to outrun

buckets of emptiness overcome

heated pavements hell bent

spent, exhausted, all out of past done

fetch the watering cans out from

the back of the attic

wash out the webs

of too many answers

and spiders poised

I suppose to test your faith in

whether or not things

better not left to unfold

can be cared for well enough

to be secured and hold up an end

so the damned things stay behind

the veil of whoever cast those spells anyway

So when your hands go up

your guard begs your feet better

have sturdy contact with the ground

so happiness can come

from your heart not your my mind

for far as long if that love shall last.

Crumbling thoughts keep me

from mastering peace everyone says

comes from within

and even a glue tap never running dry

could hold everything

that has to come apart

together.

Our hands are up

and the guards are marching down

the street prepared

for what we all hope never comes

the happiness waits

in a gaze away from the scene

birds are chirping

over the loudspeaker mic

bumping

the people are empowered

and using their bodies to

share their minds unrest

for their wages barely clean up the mess

everyone has littered the streets

with these days.

When in love

we find where the

dreamtime myths typify

the whispered lies

stories for those with their eyes closed

a majesty's heart soars

within and through beyond

there is this world

I know we can both hold.

© Mari Amman. All Rights Reserved.

Poetry, Prose &Suche VOL I.

First edition 2023, electronic distribution. Text and Images by Mari Amman.

The poems contained within this volume were drafted circa 2006-2009, in Chicago, USA, and edited during spring 2023 in Paris, France, with the enormous support of The Trélex Residency.

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